Hollandus, Johann Isaac

L'oeuvre de Saturne. Scribebat Aegidius Sylvanus Delphen[sis]. Title within historiated pen-drawn panel, text within red rules. The MS. is an abbreviated French translation of the 'Opus Saturni'. Produced in Paris.

1583

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). + 26 ff. + 6 bl. ll. 4to. 211/2 x 15 cm. Original stamped calf binding: the upper cover with an interlaced ll within a wreath, on the lower cover, the Seal of Solomon within a similar wreath.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 18/4/1934, Lot 513.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Greek symbols in Moorat's catalogue description replaced by Latin characters.

The binding probably indicates that this MS. came originally from the Library of Louise de Coligny, Princess of Orange [1555-1620]. A similar binding from her Library is illustrated in the Catalogue de l'Orange-Bibliothèque No. 156, and is now in the Royal Library at the Hague. From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris, with his press-mark label 'L.H. 81'.